Speaking of books, today came the announcement that the creative duo behind ‘social entertainment’ studio EQAL will be lending their crafty minds to the publishing world, developing an interactive site experience for the upcoming fall launch of Dark Chronicles. Written by the Emmy-winning CSI franchise creator Anthony Zuiker, Dark Chronicles is the first in a digital crime novel series that comes out on Dutton on September 8, 2009.
Apparently, here’s what going to happen: Zuiker writes a 60-page outline for each book, which then gets handed over to a novelist who takes that and pumps out a 100-chapter book. Then there will be 20 “cyber-bridges,” written and directed by Zeiler, which are two-minute episodes of sorts that follow the book’s narrative. With a new cyber bridge every five chapters, readers will have to register and enter a code from the book to view videos, audio files and photos.
Where EQAL comes in is for the web site experience, where they will develop a rich social network, blog and destination web site for the series at darkchronicles.com, scheduled to launch in July.
The EQAL team are certainly keeping busy in 2009, and now even more in the hopper since we last caught up with them in January. Let’s recap—there’s the Polish drama web series n1ckola, the upcoming companion web series Harper’s Globe as the online component to CBS’ Jon Turtletaub TV series Harper’s Island premiering next month, a recently launched a community-sourced web series LG15: The Show Is Yours, and now Dark Chronicles.
That’s a heck of a slate. It’s just a hunch, but we’d expect EQAL to be posting an open job posting or two on the new Tubefilter New Media Job Board. Better update those resumes.
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